Megan Tower’s Design Blog

Apparently there’s a WATCH that sells for $300,000. Dude, Good Design sells, right?

Here’s the thing. It doesn’t tell time.

Damn straight. It’s a day-night watch. It can tell you whether it’s day or night. I guess if you’re stuck in, say, Ministry of Love or something that might be useful. Those Oceanians probably work ridiculous hours and that may be useful…

Anyway, the point is is that this watch, no matter how pretty it is and how many pieces of the Titanic it contains (true!), it still can’t tell you the time and it costs more than some people’s homes. Get a load of that.

This guy is rolling in the money. It sold out minutes after its launch.

According to a CNN article, a U.S. college student was reporting on a protest in Egypt when he and a translator were arrested. Using a new internet craze and his cell phone, he sent one word to a Web site and his friends sent forth immediately to get him released from jail.

Okay, I think many people will say that the website isn’t the best they’ve ever seen. However, I’m not worried about that. I just really like that logo and how they use the visual identity. It’s clever, it’s clean, and it’s identifiable. And it’s really just green!

There’s apparently a chain of coffee shops running around the US called Puccino’s. I’ve personally never heard of it, but I wish I had. The designs they use for, well, everything in their shops is amazing. Typography in a hand-drawn-looking font that begs for you to read and smile.

Craig Ward is an amazing typographer. I recommend you all go visit his site for some beautiful type and some experimental stuff. I’m particularly in love with the “Good Typography is Invisible, Bad Typography is Everywhere” piece that’s in the screenshot above.

A USB drive looking mysteriously like a plagued version of the Apple’s icon is placed into a computer and at random, the copied “virus” will make everything on your screen fall subject to something Newton discovered: gravity.

I recommend watching the video.

Some people think it’s a conspiracy theory to create viruses on the Mac. I think it’s just plain ole fun; no one that stupid would publically say that this was their virus.

This is a gallery option where your images are placed into small, tiled thumbnails. When you click on them, the background dulls out, a picture pops up and adjusts to the size of the photo. No awkward side spaces. And it’s all done in javascript…or so it looks.